Description
Art Studio assistant professor Timothy Hyde uses Otter.ai, an audio transcription app supercharged by artificial intelligence, to recognize individual voices and record student workshop conversations while tagging the names of each participating student. Hyde strategically divides students into small groups to record their discussions and peer critiques. Once a student records their critique session on Otter, the student shares the link with Hyde so that he can review the conversation. This approach harnesses the power of small group work - students speak with each other unselfconsciously and enthusiastically, while the instructor gets to listen in to their best version of themselves participating in the content of the class.
About the Interviewee
Tim Hyde is a visual artist working in the expanded field of photography and an Assistant Professor of Art Studio in the Department of Art & Art History at UC Davis. His current project Labyrinth employs early breakthroughs in photography and physics at the dawn of the photographic era as a source for new artworks that employ light as a proxy for human touch. Hyde's photographs, video installations, and collages have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum in Bolzano Italy; the de Young Museum in SF; the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase NY; Sculpture Center in New York City; the Busan Biennale in Busan South Korea; the Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Boston, among others. Hyde received an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2005, and BA in History from Vassar College in 1992.
